death tribble Posted August 6 Report Share Posted August 6 Author Piers Anthony is 90 as is mountaineer Sir Chris Bonnington Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 7 Report Share Posted August 7 The actor John Glover is 80 today, the actor Michael Shannon is 50 It is also David Duchovny's birthday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 8 Report Share Posted August 8 (edited) August 8th 685 BC Battle of Qianshi. This occurs in China over rival claimants to the Duchy of Qi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Qianshi August 8th 1220 AD Sweden is defeated by the tribes of Estonia at the battle of Lihula https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lihula August 1647 English Parliamentary forces defeat the Irish at the battle of Dungan's Hill in the British Civil War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dungan's_Hill August 8th 1786 Mont Blanc on the French Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr Michel-Gabriel Paccard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_Blanc August 8th 1903 Black Saturday. 12 people are killed and 232 injured in a stadium collapse in Philadelphia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Saturday_(1903) August 8th 1918The battle of Amiens begins a string of almost continuous Allied victories with a push through German lines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Amiens_(1918) August 8th 1956 262 coal miners many of them Italian migrant workers are killed in one of the largest mining accidents in Belgian history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcinelle_mining_disaster August 8th 1963 the Great Train Robbery takes place when 15 train robbers steal £2.6 million in bank notes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Train_Robbery_(1963) August 8th 1974 President Nixon announced his resignation on TV https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon's_resignation_speech August 8th 1990 Iraq invades Kuwait August 8th 1991 The Warsaw Radio Mast collapses. It was the tallest construction until 2009. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_radio_mast August 8th 2000 The Confederate submarine H L Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by E Lee Spence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._L._Hunley_(submarine) August 8th 2008. The Beijing Olympics opened August 8th 2008 A mudslide in Gansu China leads to 1400 deaths https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Gansu_mudslide August 8th 2016 A terrorist attack on a hospital in Quetta Pakistan results in 70-94 deaths and 120 injured https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_2016_Quetta_attacks August 8th 2023 Hawaii wildfires. Seventeen thousand acres of land are burned and at least 101 people are killed with two others missing when wildfires break out in Maui, Hawaii Actor Keith Carradine is 75 today. It is also the birthday of Olympic Gold medallist Viorica Viscopoleanu who is 85. She was a Romanian long jumper Born this day Saint Dominic (founder of the Dominicans), Bob Smith (co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous), Emiliano Zapata, Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist (German Field Marshal), Ernest Lawrence (Nobel prize laureate), Paul Dirac (Nobel prize laureate), Dino de Laurentiis (director), Esther Williams (swimmer and actress), Rory Calhoun (actor), Richard Anderson (actor), Ronnie Biggs (criminal, involved in the Great Train Robbery), Terry Nation (creator of the Daleks), Roger Penrose (Nobel prize laureate), Donald P Bellisario (director and producer), Dustin Hoffman, Connie Stevens (actress), Larry Wilcox (actor (CHiPS), Svetlana Savitskaya (astronaut), Nigel Mansell (ex-Formula 1 World Champion), Don Most (actor), David Grant (singer and vocal coach), The Edge (U2), Chris Eubank (boxer), Huey Morgan (Fun Lovin' Criminals), Scott Stapp (Creed), Brian Harvey (pop group E17), Shayna Baszler (wrestler), Roger Federer (tennis player), Princess Beatrice (British Royal), Died this day Trajan (Roman Emperor), George Canning (British PM), Mary MacKillop (Australian nun and Saint), Michael Wittman (German tank commander), Elisabeth Abegg (German ant Nazi resistance fighter), Freddie Spencer Chapman (British soldier), Nicholas Monsarrat (lieutenant and author), Paul Triquet (Canadian soldier, Victoria Cross), Louise Brooks (actress), Alan Napier (actor Alfred in Batman), Nevill Francis Mott (Nobel prize laureate), Fay Wray (actress), Barbara Bel Geddes (actress), Dean Rockwell (soldier), Patricia Neal (actress), Karen Black (actress), Menahem Golan (producer), Glen Campbell (singer and actor), Olivia Newton John (singer and actress) Just think John Holmes would be 80 today Edited August 10 by death tribble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 9 Report Share Posted August 9 There will be parades, there will be fireworks and there will be mass adulation in the churches, synagogues and temples for it is the birthday of the Divine Gillian Anderson. Sam Elliot (actor) is 80 today wcw43921 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 10 Report Share Posted August 10 Rosanna Arquette (actress) is 65 today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 11 Report Share Posted August 11 (edited) Emperor Palpatine is 80 today. Or at least Ian McDiarmid the actor who plays him is. Joe Jackson (singer and musician) is 70 Jim Lee of comic book fame is 60 Peter Cushing died 30 years ago on this day while Robin Williams died 10 years ago today Edited August 11 by death tribble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted August 11 Report Share Posted August 11 On 8/10/2024 at 3:36 AM, death tribble said: Rosanna Arquette (actress) is 65 today It's kind of funny that she is arguably more famous for a song inspired by her name than for her actual acting career. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 12 Report Share Posted August 12 August 12th 1099 AD Battle of Ascalon. Last engagement of the First Crusade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ascalon August 12th 1121 Battle of Didgori. Georgian forces defeat the Seljuks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Didgori August 12th 1164 Battle of Harim. Nur ad Din Zangi defeats the Crusader armies of the Principality of Antioch and the County of Tripoli https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Harim August 12th 1499 Battle of Zonchio. First engagement of the Venetian and Ottoman fleets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Zonchio August 12th 1687 Battle of Mohacs. Charles of Lorraine defeats the Ottoman Empire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mohács_(1687) August 12th 1851 Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine August 12th 1865. Joseph Lister performs the first antiseptic surgery August 12th 1914 The United Kingdom and British Empire declare war on Austria-Hungary Belgian and German forces clash at the battle of Halen. A tactical victory for the Belgians but it did not stop the German invasion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Halen August 12th 1944 Waffen SS soldiers massacre 560 civilians in Sant'Anna Di Stazzema https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant'Anna_di_Stazzema_massacre The first city in France to be liberated by forces of the Free French under General Leclerc is Alencon The Wola massacre concludes August 12th 1948 The Pakistani police kill between 15 and 150 members of the Khudai Khitmatger movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babrra_massacre August 12th 1950 North Korean soldiers massacre 75 American soldiers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Gulch_massacre August 12th 1952 13 prominent Jewish intellectuals are murdered in the Soviet Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Murdered_Poets August 12th 1953 Between 445 and 800 people are killed by an earthquake that strikes the Ionian islands https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Ionian_earthquake August 12th 1960 NASA's first successful communications satellite Echo 1a is launched August 12t 1964 South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games for it's racist policies August 12th 1976 Between 1,000 and 3,500 Palestinians are killed in the Tel al-Zaatar massacre during the Lebanese Civil war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_al-Zaatar_massacre August 12th 1977 First free flight of the space shuttle Enterprise August 12th 1981 The IBM personal computer is released August 12th 1985 Japan Air lines flight 123 crashes in Osutuka Ridge Japan becoming the single greatest single plane loss of life resulting in 520 deaths. 4 people survived https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Air_Lines_Flight_123 August 12th 1990 The most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton is found by Sue Hendrickson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_(dinosaur) August 12th 1994 Baseball players go on strike, eventually forcing the cancellation of the 1994 World Series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994–95_Major_League_Baseball_strike August 12th 2000 The Russian submarine Kursk explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea killing the entire 118 man crew https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kursk_submarine_disaster August 12th 2015 Two massive explosions occur in Tianjin China kill 173 and 800 are injured https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Tianjin_explosions August 12th 2021 Five people are killed in Keyham Plymouth before the shooter kills himself in Britain's biggest mass shooting since 2010 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_shooting George Hamilton (actor) is 85 today. Sam Jones (actor, Flash Gordon) is 70 as is Pat Metheny and Francois Hollande (President of France). Tanita Tikaram (singer) is 55 Born this day King George IV (of Britain), Diamond Jim Brady, Jacinto Benavente (Nobel prize laureate), Cecil B DeMille (director), Erwin Schrodinger (Nobel prize laureate), Boy Charlton (Australian Olympic swimmer), Jane Wyatt (actress), Samuel Fuller (director), Wing Commander Guy Gibson (VC), Fulton Mackay (actor), Ross and Norris McWhirter (founders of the Guinness Book of Records), John Derek (actor and director), Porter Waggoner (American singer and guitarist, subject of I Will Always Love You by Dolly Parton), William Goldman (author, screenwriter), Parnelli Jones (driver and team owner), John Cazale (actor), Ron Mael (Sparks), John Nathan Turner (Dr Who producer), Jim Beaver (actor), August 'Kid Creole' Darnell, Bruce Greenwood (actor), Amanda Redman, Laurent Fignon (cyclist, Tour de France winner), Sir Mix-a-Lot, Peter Krause (actor), Pete Sampras, Jonathan Coachman (sportscaster), Casey Affleck (actor), Tyson Fury (boxer), Cara Delevingne (model and actress) Died this day Cleopatra, William Blake (poet and painter), George Stephenson (British engineer), Thomas Mann (author, Nobel prize laureate), James B Sumner (Nobel prize laureate), Ian Fleming, Walter Rudolf Hess (Nobel prize laureate), Karl Zeigler (Nobel prize laureate), Ernst Boris Chain (Nobel prize laureate), Henry Fonda (actor), John Cage (composer), Jean Michel Basquiat (artist), William Shockley (Nobel prize laureate), Mark Gruenwald (comics), Loretta Young (actress), Godfrey Hounsfield (Nobel prize laureate), Merv Griffin, Les Paul (guitarist), Robert Robinson (game show host), Joe Kubert (comics), Lauren Bacall (actress), Stephen Lewis (actor), Una Stubbs (actress). 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death tribble Posted August 13 Report Share Posted August 13 (edited) Philippe Petit the tightrope walker who walked between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center is 75 today. Donny Bonaduce who was in the Partridge Family is 65 today. The retired figure skater Midori Ito is 55 today The last people to be condemned to death and hanged in Britain are Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans who are killed 60 years ago today. Edited August 14 by death tribble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 14 Report Share Posted August 14 Bob Backlund (wrestler) is 75 today Marcia Gay Harden (actress) and Magic Johnson (basketball player) is 65 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 15 Report Share Posted August 15 Natasha Henstridge (model and actress in Species) is 50 today. Napoleon Bonaparte was born today and Macbeth was killed in battle. Roland the archetype of Paladins was killed today in battle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 16 Report Share Posted August 16 Sir Trevor McDonald from ITN's News at Ten is 85 today James Cameron is 70, so is professional troublemaker and ex-MP George Galloway Cedric Alexander (wrestler) is 35 today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 17 Report Share Posted August 17 Maria McKee (singer) is 60 Donnie Wahlberg (singer, actor) is 55 Liam Heath is 40 (Olympic canoeist) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 18 Report Share Posted August 18 August 18th 1304 The French fight the Flemish militias to a daw at the battle of Mons-en-Pevele https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mons-en-Pévèle August 18th 1870 The battle of Gravelotte takes place in the Frnco-Prussian war resulting in a Prussian victory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gravelotte August 20th 1920 The Nineteenth amendment to the US Constitution is ratified guaranteeing Women's suffrage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution August 18th 1940 The Hardest Day takes place during the Battle of Britain with heavy losses on both sides https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hardest_Day Edward Norton (actor) and Christian Slater (actor) are both 55 Born this day Antonio Salieri (composer), John Russell (British PM), Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria, Marshal Field (founded Marshal Fields), William Halford (Medal of Honor recipient), Romain Maes (Belgian cyclist won the Tour de France), Luc Montagnier (Nobel prize laureate), Roman Polanski (director), Vincent Bugliosi (lawyer), Shelley Winters (actress), Brian Aldiss (author), Robert Redford (actor), Martin Mull (comedian), Patrick Swayze (actor), Richardo Villa (Argentine footballer), Carole Bouquet (actress), Denis Leary (comedian), Madelaine Stowe (actress), Brian Michael Bendis (comics), Malcolm Jamal Warner (actor), Andy Samberg (actor, comedian) Died this day Pope Sixtus III, Pope Adrian V, Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia), Pope Paul IV, Honore de Balzac (novelist and playwright), Eli Whitney Blake (invented the Mortise lock), Joseph Seagram (founded Seagrams), Walter Chrysler (founded Chrysler), Persis Khambatta (actress Star Trek 1), Elmer Bernstein (composer and conductor), Kim Dae-jung (Nobel prize laureate), Hal Connelly (Olympian), Scott McKenzie (singer San Francisco Flowers in your Hair), Bruce Forsyth (British entertainer and TV presenter), Kofi Annan (UN Secretary General), Ben Cross (actor) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 19 Report Share Posted August 19 August 19th 1692 5 people are executed during the Salem Witch trials after being convicted of witchcraft August 19th 1940 First flight of the B25 Mitchell bomber https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_B-25_Mitchell August 19th 1942 Operation Jubilee, the Dieppe raid takes place and is a failure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieppe_Raid August 19th 1953 The CIA and MI6 restore the Shah of Iran overthrowing the government of Mohammad Mosaddegh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'état August 19th 1978 A cinema is set on fire by Iranian militants causing 400 deaths, this is the 25th anniversary of the Shah's restoration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_Rex_fire August 19th 1980 A Lockheed Tristar caught fire in Saudi Arabia but made an emergency landing. However all died as emergency evacuation was not performed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudia_Flight_163 August 19th 1981 In the Gulf of Sidra incident two Libyan jets fire on American Tomcats are are subsequently shot down https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Sidra_incident_(1981) August 19th 1987 Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with a semi-automatic rifle before committing suicide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungerford_massacre Nafissatou Thiam (Belgian heptathlete and current Olympic Champion) Born this day John Dryden (poet and playwright), Madame du Barry (mistress of Louis XV of France), Orville Wright, Coco Chanel, Ogden Nash (poet), Saint Alphonsa (first woman of Indian origin to be canonized), Gene Roddenberry, Willard Boyle (Nobel prize laureate), Bernard Levin (journalist, author, broadcaster), Bill Shoemaker (jockey), Richard Ingrams (journalist), Diana Muldaur (actress), Ginger Baker (drummer), Johnny Nash (singer), Jill St John (model and actress), Fred Thompson (actor, politician), Billy J Kramer (singer), Ian Gillen (singer esp Deep Purple), Bill Clinton (ex US President), Jim Carter (actor), Tipper Gore (activist, ex-Vice President's wife), John Deacon (musician Queen), Jonathan Frakes (actor), Peter Gallagher (actor), Adam Arkin (actor), John Stamos (actor), Kevin Dillon (actor), Kyra Sedgewick (actress), James Tomkins (Olympian), Nate Dogg (rapper), Mathew Perry (actor), Christina Perri (singer) Died this day Augustus (Roman Emperor), Blaise Pascal, John Wesley Hardin (gunfighter), Sergei Diaghilev (founded the Ballet Russes), Fererico Garcia Lorca (Spanish poet), Henry Wood (English conductor founder of the Proms), Pawel Jasienica (soldier and historian), Alistair Sim (actor), Groucho Marx (comedian), Otto Frank (father of Anne Frank), Jessie Mathews (actress), Hermione Baddeley (actress), Linus Pauling (Nobel prize laureate), August Neo (Olympian), Mo Mowlem (British politician), Tony Scott (director), Sonny Chiba (actor) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 20 Report Share Posted August 20 Amy Adams (actress) and Misha Collins (Castiel in Supernatural) are 50 today Jamie Cullum (singer, pianist) is 45 Judd Trump (snooker player) is 35 It is also H P Lovecraft's birthday August 20th 1191 Richard 1st initiates the massacre at Ayyadieh leaving between 2,600 to 3,000 Muslim hostages dead https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_at_Ayyadieh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 21 Report Share Posted August 21 The director Peter Weir is 80 today Jim McMahon (Chicago Bears Quarterback) is 65 today Kelis (singer) is 45 Hayden Panettiere (actress) is 35 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 22 Report Share Posted August 22 Mark Williams (actor, comedian) is 65 today Mats Wilander (tennis player) is 60 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 23 Report Share Posted August 23 (edited) August 23rd 1268 AD The Guelphs defeat the Ghibellines at the battle of Tagliacozzo in Italy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tagliacozzo August 23rd 1328 The French army defeats Flemish rebels at the battle of Cassel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cassel_(1328) August 23rd 1514 The Ottoman empire defeats the Safavids at the battle of Chaldiran https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chaldiran August 23rd 1572 The St Bartholomew's day massacre begins as mobs attack Huguenots in Paris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Bartholomew's_Day_massacre August 23rd 1595 Prince Michael the Brave of Wallachia defeats the Ottomans at the battle of Calugareni https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Călugăreni August 23rd 1600 Eastern forces of Tokugawa Ieyasu defeat the Western forces of Toyotomi Hideyori and destroy the castle of Gifu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gifu_Castle August 23rd 1628 George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, is assassinated by his secretary John Felton August 23rd 1655 Charles X Gustav of Sweden defeats the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth at the battle of Sobota https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Sobota August 23rd 1813 The Prussians under Von Bulow defeat the French south of Berlin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Großbeeren August 23rd 1914 The first battle between the British Expeditionary force and the German army occurs at Mons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mons August 23rd 1939 Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov–Ribbentrop_Pact August 23rd 1942 The Battle of Stalingrad commences August 23rd 1944 A B24 Liberator crashes into a school in England killing 61 people most of whom were children https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freckleton_air_disaster August 23rd 1954 First flight of the Lockheed C-130 Hercules August 23rd 1970 The Salad Bowl strike begins, the largest farm worker strike in the USA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salad_Bowl_strike August 23rd 1973 A bank robbery gone wrong in Sweden turns into a hostage crisis and is the origin of Stockholm syndrome. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norrmalmstorg_robbery August 23rd 1991 The World Wide Web is opened to the public August 23rd 2000 Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes with the loss of all onboard, this is the deadliest accident in Bahraini territory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_Air_Flight_072 August 23rd 2006 Natascha Kampusch escapes captivity in Austria. Her captor commits suicide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natascha_Kampusch August 23rd 2007 The skeletal remains of Alexei, Tsarevich of Russia and Grand Duchess Anastasia are discovered August 23rd 2011 Gaddafi is overthrown August 23rd 2023 A business jet carrying key members of the Wagner group crashes killing all onboard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Wagner_Group_plane_crash Vera Miles (actress) is 85, Shelley Long (actress) is 75 today as is Rick Springfield (singer), Ray Park (Darth Maul) is 50, Saskia Clark (Olympian sailor) is 45 Born this day King Louis XVI of France, General Jonathan M Wainwright (Medal of Honor recipient), Gene Kelly (actor, dancer), Kenneth Arrow (Nobel prize laureate), Robert Solow (Nobel prize laureate), Barbara Eden (actress), Hamilton O Smith (Nobel prize laureate), Robert Curl (Nobel prize laureate), Keith Moon (the Who's drummer), Willy Russell (British playwright), Linda Thompson (folk singer), Bobby Gee (member of Bucks Fizz Eurovision song contest winners), Shaun Ryder (singer Happy Mondays), River Phoenix (actor), Jay Mohr (actor), Kobe Bryant (basketball player), Jeremy Lin (basketball player) and Seth Curry (basketball player) Died this day Caesarion (son of Caesar and Cleopatra), ( Sir William Wallace (Scottish independence leader), Rudolph Valentino, Oscar Hammerstein II (composer), Stanford Moore (Nobel prize laureate), Didier Pironi (Formula 1 driver), Kathleen Freeman (actress the nun in the Blues Brothers), Brock Peters (actor) and Jerry Nelson (of the Muppets) Edited August 23 by death tribble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 25 Report Share Posted August 25 (edited) August 25th 1580 AD Spanish victory at the battle of Alcantara brings about Iberian Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Alcântara_(1580) August 25th 1875 Captain Mathew Webb becomes the first person to swim across the English Channel travelling from Dover to Calais in 21 hours and 45 minutes August 25th 1942 The battle of Milne Bay begins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Milne_Bay August 25th 1944 Paris is liberated by the Allies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_of_Paris August 25th 1960 The Summer Olympic Games open in Rome The director John Badham is 85 today. The businessman Conrad Black is 80 as is the actor Anthony Heald. John Savage (actor) is 75 as is Gene Simmons (of KISS), Elvis Costello (musician) is 70, Blair Uderwood (actor) is 60 Born this day Ivan the Terrible Czar of Russia, George Stubbs (painter), Louis Antoine de Saint Just (French revolutionary), Allen Pinkerton (who founded the Pinkerton detective agency), Emil Theodor Kocher (Nobel prize laureate), King Ludwig II of Bavaria (he caused the building the fairy tale castles), Charles Richet (Nobel prize laureate), Hans Adolf Krebs (Nobel prize laureate), Ruby Keeler (actress), Michael Rennie (actor), Erich Honnecker (German Politician), Van Johnson (actor), Frederick Chapman Robbins (Nobel prize laureate), Mel Ferrer (actor), Leonard Bernstein (conductor, composer), Richard Greene (actor), George Wallace (American Governor), Althea Gibson (tennis player), Herbert Kroemer (Nobel prize laureate), Sean Connery, Regis Philbin (TV host), Tom Skerritt (actor), Frederick Forsyth (author), Martin Amis (novelist), Rob Halford (Judas Priest), John McGeoch (guitarist with Siouxsie and the Banshees), Simon McBurney (actor), Tim Burton (director), Billy Ray Cyrus (singer, father of Miley), Joanne Whalley (actress), Theresa Andrews (Olympian swimmer), Terminator X (DJ with Public Enemy), Tom Hollander (actor), Rachael Ray (chef), Claudia Schiffer (model), Alexander Skarsgard (actor), Jonathan Togo (actor CSI Miami), Blake Lively (actress) Died this day Pliny the Elder, David Hume (philosopher), James Watt (engineer), William Herschel (astronomer), Michael Faraday (physicist), Friedrich Nietzsche (philosopher), Henri Becquerel (Nobel prize laureate), Franz Conrad von Hotzendorf (Austrian Field Marshal), Prince George (Duke of Kent, in an air crash), Alfred Kinsey (academic), Paul Muni (actor), George Lincoln Rockwell (politician founder of the American Nazi Party), Eyvind Johnson (Nobel prize laureate), Stan Kenton (composer and bandleader), Truman Capote (novelist), Art Rooney (founder of the Pittsburgh Steelers), Aaliyah (singer, in an air crash), Ken Tyrrell (race car driver and founder of Tyrrell Racing), Neil Armstrong (astronaut), John McCain (American politician) Edited August 25 by death tribble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 27 Report Share Posted August 27 (edited) August 27th 1883 Four explosions destroy 70% of the island of Krakatoa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1883_eruption_of_Krakatoa August 27th 1896 The shortest war in recorded history (09:02-09:40) between Zanzibar and the United Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Zanzibar_War August 27th 1955 The Guinness Book of Records is first published https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness_World_Records August 27th 1979 The IRA murder 18 British soldiers at Warrenpoint and Earl Louis Mountbatten in the Irish Republic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrenpoint_ambush The actor G W Bailey (Captain Harris in Police Academy) is 80 today, John Lloyd (former tennis player) and Derek Warwick (formula 1 driver) are 70, the Formula 1 driver Gerhard Berger is 65 as is the novelist Jeanette Winterson. Reece Shearsmith (of the League of Gentlemen) is 55, Aaron Paul (actor) is 45 as is Rusty Smith (Olympian speed skater) Born this day Charles G Dawes (soldier and Nobel prize laureate), Theodore Dreiser (novelist), Carl Bosch (Nobel prize laureate), Charles Rolls (co-founded Rolls Royce), C S Forester (author), Ed Gein (murderer), Sir Don Bradman (cricketer), Lyndon B Johnson (US President), Sylvere Maes (cyclist Tour de France winner), Norman Foster Ramsey Jnr (Nobel prize laureate), Ira Levis (novelist), The Captain (of Captain and Tennille), Tuesday Weld (model and actress), Barbara Bach (actress),Sgt Slaughter (wrestler), Bernhard Langer (golfer), Paul Ruebens (actor), Peter Stormare (actor), Glen Matlock (of the Sex Pistols), Jeroen Duyster (Olympian sailor), Denis Lewis (Olympic Heptathlete), Mark Weber (formula 1 driver), Tori Bowie (Olympian athlete) Died this day the popes Eugene II and Sixtus V, Titian (painter), Major Georg von Boeselager (soldier), Ernest Lawrence (Nobel prize laureate), Gracie Allen (actress and comedian), Le Corbusier (architect), Brian Epstein (Beatles manager), Haile Selassie (Ethiopian Emperor), Stevie Ray Vaughan (singer, guitarist), Greg Morris (actor Mission Impossible), Luna Vachon (wrestler), Cookie (the oldest recorded parrot in this case a Cockatoo) Edited August 27 by death tribble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 29 Report Share Posted August 29 August 29th 1219 AD The battle of Fariskur takes place between Egyptian forces and Crusaders. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fariskur_(1219) August 29th 1315 The republic of Pisa defeats the kingdom of Naples and the republic of Florence at the battle of Montecatini despite being outnumbered. This is part of the Ghibelline-Guelf wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Montecatini August 29th 1350 The English fleet defeats a Castilian fleet at the battle of Winchelsea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Winchelsea August 29th 1526 The battle of Mohacs takes place between Hungary and its allies against the Ottoman Empire led by Suleiman the Magnificent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mohács August 29th 1741 The Oshima volcano erupts causing a tsunami that kills 2,000 people in Japan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1741_eruption_of_Oshima–Ōshima_and_the_Kampo_tsunami August 29th 1756 Frederick the Great attacks Saxony beginning the Seven Year War August 29th 1778 British and Continental forces clash inconclusively at the battle of Rhode Island https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Rhode_Island August 29th 1779 American forces defeat the British and Iroquois at the battle of Newtown https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Newtown August 29th 1807 The British under Sir Arthur Wellesley defeat a Danish militia at the battle of Koge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Køge August 29th 1907 The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction leading to the deaths of 75 workers. August 29th 1912 A typhoon strikes China leading to 50,000 deaths https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1912_China_typhoon August 29th 1914 The battle of St Quentin begins between France and Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_St._Quentin_(1914) August 29th 2012 The Paralympic Summer games open in London Stan Hansen (wrestler) is 75 today, Rebecca de Mornay (actress) is 65 today as is Eddi Reader (singer Fairground Attraction) Born this day Oliver Wendall Holmes Snr (Author), Jean Baptiste Colbert (French politician), John Locke (philosopher), Ingres (painter), Preston Sturges (director), Werner Forssmann (Nobel prize winner), Barry Sullivan (actor), Ingrid Bergman (actress), Charlie Parker (saxophonist), Richard Attenborough (actor, director, producer), William Friedkin (director), John McCain (captain and politician), Elliot Gould (actor), Gottfried John (actor, villainous general in Goldeneye), Sterling Morrison (guitarist, singer with Velvet Underground), Arthur B McDonald (Nobel prize laureate), Bob Beamon (Olympic long jumper), James Hunt (formula 1 driver and broadcaster), Don Schlitz (songwriter), Diamanda Galas (singer), Sir Lenny Henry (comedian, actor), Jerry D Bailey (jockey), Michael Jackson (singer), Elizabeth Fraser (singer Cocteau Twins), Carla Gugino (actress), Daryll Neita (Olympian sprinter) Died this day Brigham Young (religious leader), Pierre Lallament (inventor of the bicycle), William Archibald Spooner (priest, author, after whom Spoonerism is named), David T Abercrombie (co-founder Abercrombie and Fitch), Nathan Leopold (murderer), Eamon de Valera (Irish President), Jean Hagen (actress), Ingrid Bergman (actress), Lee Marvin (actor), Sir Peter Scott (ornithologist), Geoffrey Perkins (actor, producer and screenwriter), Gene Wilder (actor), James Mirrlees (Nobel prize winner), Ed Asner (actor), Lee Scratch Perry (reggae producer), Jacques Rogge (former Olympic President) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 30 Report Share Posted August 30 (edited) August 30th 1914 AD The Germans defeat the Russians at the battle of Tannenberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tannenberg August 30th 1922 The Turks defeat the Greeks at the battle of Dumlupinar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dumlupınar August 30th 1942 the battle of Alam el Halfa begins between the Eighth Army under Montgomery and the Afrika Korps under Rommel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Alam_el_Halfa August 30th 1974 A bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Tokyo killing eight and injuring 378. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974_Mitsubishi_Heavy_Industries_bombing An express train from Belgrade to Dortmund derails killing 153 passengers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zagreb_train_disaster The actor David Paymer is 70 today, Bebe Rexha (singer) is 35 Born this day Capability Brown (landscape architect), Samuel Whitbread (brewer), Jacques Louis David (artist), Mary Shelley (novelist), Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (Nobel prize laureate), Ernest Rutherford (Nobel prize laureate), Theodor Svedberg (Nobel prize laureate), Huey Long (governor), Raymond Massey (actor), Joan Blondell (actress), Fred MacMurray (actor), Roger Bushell (pilot, mastermind of the Great Escape), Edward Mills Purcell (Nobel prize laureate), Richard Stone (Nobel prize laureate), Denis Healey (politician), Daryl Gates (police officer), Warren Buffet (businessman and philanthropist), Bruce McLaren (race driver and founder of McLaren racing team), John Peel (DJ), Jonathan Aitken (politician), Robert Crumb (illustrator), Peggy Lipton (actress), Antony Gormley (sculptor), Timothy Bottoms (actor), Muriel Gray (journalist), Gary Gordon (Medal of Honor recipient), Michael Chiklis (actor), Peter Cunnah (singer D:Ream), Cameron Diaz (model, actress), Andy Roddick (tennis player), Liesel Jones (Olympian swimmer), Eamon Sullivan (Olympian swimmer), Eva Risztov (Olympian swimmer), Jessica Henwick (actress) Died this day John Bell Hood (American general), Wilhelm Wien (Nobel prize laureate), Max Factor Snr (founder of Max Factor), J J Thompson (Nobel prize laureate), Charles Coburn (actor), Guy Burgess (spy), Jean Seberg (actress), Vera Ellen (actress and dancer), Richard Jordan (actor), Lindsey Anderson (director), J Lee Thompson (director), Charles Bronson, Glenn Ford (actor), Naguib Mahfouz (Nobel prize laureate), Killer Kowalski (wrestler and trainer), Seamus Heaney (Nobel prize laureate), Wes Craven (director), Andrew V McLaglen (director and producer), Oliver Sacks (neurologist, author), Valerie Harper (actress), Mikhail Gorbachev (Soviet leader) Edited August 30 by death tribble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted September 1 Report Share Posted September 1 The actor Burn Gorham is 50 today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted September 5 Report Share Posted September 5 September 5th 1666 The Great Fire of London ends. September 5th 1781 The battle of the Chesapeake take place resulting in a French victory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Chesapeake September 5th 1793 The Reign of Terror in the French Revolution begins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror September 5th 1887 A fire in the Theatre Royal in Exeter results in 186 deaths the deadliest single building fire in the UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exeter_Theatre_Royal_fire September 5th 1914 The First battle of the Marne begins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_the_Marne September 5th 1972 The Munich massacre begins. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_5 September 5th 1986 Pan Am Flight 73 is hijacked. 21 passengers and crew are killed but over 300 survive. Neeja Bhanot is posthumously awarded decorations by the Indian and Pakistani governments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_73 September 5th 1990 The Sri Lankan army slaughters 158 civilians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_University_massacre September 5th 2005 Mandela Airlines flight 091 crashes soon after takeoff killing 149 people in the plane and on the ground https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandala_Airlines_Flight_091 Actors William Devane and George Lazenby are 85 today, Dweezil Zappa is 55 Born this day Louis XIV (king of France), William Dampier (explorer, pirate), Jesse James, Bob Newhart (comedian), Raquel Welch (actress), Werner Herzog (director), Dennis Dugan (actor, director), Freddie Mercury, Michael Keaton (actor), David Brabham (race driver), Johnny Vegas(comedian), Paddy Considine (actor), Rose McGowan (actress), Carice Van Houten (actress) Died this day Catherine Parr (Henry VIII's last wife), Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (general, author), Crazy Horse (Lakota Sioux chief), Arthur McArthur Jnr (general, Medal of Honor recipient), George Stoneman (cavalry officer), Jochen Rindt (Formula 1 champion), Douglas Bader (pilot), Gert Frobe (actor, Goldfinger), Fritz Leiber (author), Georg Solti (conductor), Mother Teresa of Calcutta (Nobel prize laureate), Alan Clark (politician, historian), Hugh O'Brian (actor), Nicolaas Bloembergen (Nobel prize laureate), Sarah Harding (singer Girls Aloud) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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